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I feel a bit of nostalgia. I am terribly busy these days and I remember some things when I can rest for some minutes. I hope to start sending stories here soon, but this brief journal is devoted to something different. In 1987 I was in my first year in High School. In TV or in the radio a song titled Annabel Lee could be heard. It was a song by the band Radio Futura (Future radio), that disappeared in 1992. I remember that I liked it. It is sad for me that modern music made in Spain is, mainly, reggaeton-like, and I yearn for the old bands. Annabel Lee song is based in the poem with the same title by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is a link to a video with the song, with subtitles. It has subtitles in Spanish, in English with the lyrics translated and, between parentheses, the lines of Poe's poem that inspired each sentence in the lyrics. Good old times, when musicians got inspired by poems. Enjoy the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX_xUAW38no

This is a journal that I started to write in my mind some months ago. I came up with it when I knew about a story by Arthur C. Clarke in which a man falls in love with a gorgeous alien girl. The love becomes contempt when the man discovers that the alien girl was about 27 feet tall (9 meters). I did not understand why a beautiful 27 feet woman could cause so much contempt, considering that Arthur C Clarke's character was previously in love with her. However, I never understood why some men are reluctant to date taller girls, although I think that this question is a different one, since in literature, most things are symbols or metaphors. Th

This is a strange journal entry for several reasons. One of them: it is related slightly to my novel, but I would like to write about things that are external to the plot. Other one, criticising some traits that I do not like about beauty and body types in women. But the reason that makes me feel that this is a "strange" journal is that I did not start to write Sails in the Distance in order to criticise the question related to extremely thin women as the only possible beauty standard, but Neivria became an involuntary protest against that. This journal was conceived after watching a news in TV. A very famous brand or model agency presented